Button-holding device.



W. F. GAUNT.

BUTTON HOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED same, 1911.

Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

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W. F. GAUNT.

BUTTON HOLDING DEVICE. APPLIGATION'IILED SEPT. s, 1911.

1,078,091 Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

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WALTER FRANCIS GAUNT, 0F BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

BUTTON-HOLDING DEVICE.

Application filed September =6, 1911-. Serial No. 647,942.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, lVAL'rnR FRANCIS GAUNT, asubject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residingat \Varstone Parade, in the city of Birmingham, in the county oflVarwick, England, manufacturer, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Button-Holding Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention consists of the herein described improved button fixerfor fixing military and like buttons to brooches, hat pins, waist beltclasps, and the like.

At the present time military buttons and other similar buttons arelargely used for the heads of ladies hat pins and as brooches and theyare also used on belt clasps.

My invention provides a cheap and comparatively inexpensive means bywhich a military or like button having aloop or other shank of the usualkind can be instantly and firmly fixed on to a metal mount forming thehead of a ladys hat pin or other pin or forming the body of a brooch ora waist belt clasp or solitaire or the like, or the top or otherpart ofa swagger cane mount.

My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings on which Figure1 is a sectional elevation of one form of my improved button fixer,fixing a military or like button to a. brooch; Fig. 2 shows the saidordinary military button separately; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation ofthe mount part of the button fixer; Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation andFig. 5 is a plan of the gripping plate part of the button fixer; Fig. 6is a sectional elevation of the back plate of the brooch with its broochpin and catch; Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 8 is a plan ofthe same button fixer and brooch complete for attachment to the button;Fig. 9 is a sectional elevation of my improved button fiXer applied to aladys hat pin for the fixing of a military or like button to the headthereof; Fig. 10 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 11 is a plan of themount part of the button fixer Fig. 9 separately.

The said button fixer comprises a gripping plate furnished with tonguesadapted to act as a toggle jaw grip and grip the loop of the buttonshank when the latter is pressed between t em, said button fixerSpecification of; Letters Patent.

. Patented Nov.11,1913.

'1 L11 e wi in or orm'n' art of beligaragd th f 1gp a mount which mayform part of a brooch; or the head of a ladys hatpin, or the like,

the mount being so constructed that the underside of the button when thelatter is fix-ed in position takes a seating upon a recessed portion ofthe mount.

I will first refer more particularly to Figs. 1 to 8 both inclusive anddescribe my button fixer 1 as applied to a brooch for the purpose offixing to the latter a military or like button 2 which me an ordinaryshank 3 made in the form of a loop or eye. The brooch mount 4 which isby preference made as a metal stamping (or the mount may be otherwiseformed and of any other suitable substance) has at the front of it a,circular recess 5 in which the body of the button 2 will fit. Thismount 4L .is pierced with a large hole 6 through which the looped shank3 of the button passes. The mount 4 is secured to a back plate 7 to'which the brooch pin or other attachment is fixed. This back plate 7 isfixed to the mount 4; by any suitable means as by the periphery 8 of themount being spun or closed over the periphery 9 of the back plate 7.Between the mount 1 and the back plate ;7 there is fixed the buttonfixer 1 made as fa gripping plate, and which is by preference made ofthin sheet steel, which is fixed at the back of the mount 1 and isinclosed by the back plate 7 the latter being domed slightly as shown orotherwise shaped so as j to leave a certain space between the back ofthe gripping plate 1 and the back plate 1. In the center of thisgripping plate there is a cross slit 10 and there are two slits 11 and12 at right angles to the cross slit and at the ends of the same so thatthe metal between these slits forms two metal tongues 13, 14 the ends ofwhich, forming the sides of the slit 10, touch or almost touch oneanother and are or may be sharpened. These tongues 13, 14-, are bentbackwardly slightly from the front face of the gripping plate 1.

To affix the military or other shank buttons 2 in position in the recess5 on the mount 4, it is only necessary to press the button 2 into thesaid recess 5 so that the button shank 3 passes between the meeting oralmost meeting ends of the two tongues 13, 14, which latter are therebypressed outwardly to some extent farther away from "is used with theback plate and gripping the plate by the button shank 3 as the latter 7passes between them, and when the button 2 has been pressed'firmly homein the recess 5 in the mount 4; as in Fig. 1, the two tongues 18, 1%,will, by the button shank 8, have been bent into a slightly inclinedposition as in Fig. 1 toward the back plate 7 and their ends will as inFig. 1 grip the button shank H 2 '3 between them, It will now beimpossible to remove the button 2 from the recess 5 as the two tongues18, 14, form two struts and 1 act like toggle grips on the button shank,as

p y owing to the thickness of the button shank betweenthe almost meetingends of the two '15 tongues 13, 14, they efliectually resist any strainwhich is put upon the button to pull it out of the recess 5 and thus thebutton is perfectly secure.

' Mybutton fixer is applied to other of the said articles similarly asabove described v with reference to a brooch, for the fixing of a buttonto the mount of the hat pin, waist belt clasp, the mount being similarlymade with a recessto receive the button the gripping plate such as ,1being arranged within the mount andformed with toggle gripping tongues13, 14:, adapted to grip the button shank and secure the button in therecess in the manner above described.

-' Itvis not imperative that the mount which 'f'plate should bepermanently fixed thereto, as the said mount may, if desired, be made 7manently fixed to the'head end of the hat pin shank 22 and in this caseis permanently fixed to the gripping plate 1 by the 13, 14;, until thebutton periphery of the back plate 7 being closed overthe periphery ofthe gripping plate 1. It will be understood that when the mount 4 hasbeen placed in position on the combined gripping plate 1 and the backplate 7 so that they enter the recess 15 in the back of the mount as inFig. 9 that these parts are permanently secured when the button shank 3has been pushed between the tongues properly rests in the recess 5 as inFig. 9.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis 1. In a button holding device, in combination, a recessed mounthaving a centrally disposed opening therein said mount being secured toa back plate, said mount or plate having a fastening thereon forsecuring the complete device to an article of apparel, a fiat grippingplate between said mount and back plate, said gripping plate slit in Hformation, forming two tongues adapted to receive and grip between themthe loop shank of a button and prevent said button turning in the recessof the mount.

2. In a button holding device, in combination, a recessed mount having acentrally disposed opening therein a back plate adapted to be receivedby said mount, said back plate having a fastening thereon for securingit to an article of apparel, a flat gripping plate secured to said backplate slit in H formation, said slits forming two tongues adapted toreceive and grip between them the shank of a button mounted in therecess of the said mount, said gripping means forming the means ofconnection between the mount and the back plate.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER FRANCIS GAUNT.

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